Few new plants from diggers in spring

The digger spring catalogue is always a bit temping. So here are my purchases

 

Wasabi:: nicely mulched up and well protected from the bantam chooks. I'm looking forward to trying this instead of the colored horseradish that you get in the supermarket.

 

Passionfruit "panama gold": I will be erecting a trellice along the fence this afternoon

 

Gooseberry Yorkshire Chanmpion, I have another gooseberry in the garden which has yet to fruit. I'm certainly looking forward to fruit and this new specimen.

 

This is a little bulb that is in the front garden. I'm not exactly sure what it is but I do love the delicate blue color.

 

Digger's, Earthquakes, tsnamis and nuclear explosions

Our family is part of the the Digger's club, in which you get a gardening magazine every couple of months. The heriloom himself 'Clive Blazey' writes an opinion piece each issue. I found it fasicinating  his last paragraph in 'Winter Garden 2011' 'Earthquakes, tsnamis and nuclear explosions'

In Havana, where Cubans make an abrupt move out of the fossil fuel economy [fall of the Soviet Union?], their footprint is 85% lower but their life expectancy is the same (77 years) as that of the US and their expenditure on health is a fraction of that of an American. The pollutants associated with burning coal are also a health hazard. Being independent of Middle Eastern oil and the wars it entails would ensure a healthier  lifestyle and a sustainable economy wouldn't it?

It is fascinating that it reveals that the capitalist economy doesn't mean better outcomes! In light of Clive Hamilton's books Growth fetish', it would be interesting out of which country also has the happier citizens? It would seem to me that we are been fed a lie with marketing, the true root of all evil.

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Phillip Island RSL, 'The Pint'

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Just finnished a meal at the Phillip Island RSL. There were a couple of strange experiences. The first was when I wanted a beer.
I walked up noticing there was a good selection of beers on tap, I procced to order a 'pint', of coppers pale ale. The women went on to pour me a 'pot'. I said to her I wanted a 'pint'. In which she said
"you can only get that in guinness" I replied then
"I'll have that then" and she proceded to tip the coppers pale ale down the drain. When I told her it was stupid I couldn't have a pint of coppers. She went on to tell me it was for 'nutritional' reasons. Bah.
The other thing which happened was at 6pm all the lights went out except for the lights of the play stations from the kids room, and the poker machines. Then a bloke went on to talk about lost diggers and stuff like that. Inspirational! Better than church. It brought back memorys of storys my grandfather told me of getting bombed by the Japs in Darwin.
I thought they should have turned off the poker machines, much better to have played the 'last post' than the crappy sound of coin from poker machines.



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